Improved washing-machine



D. P. SHAW AND J. s.

Lems- Paaet Na? 93,912, ma August 17, 1869.

mriacvnn WASHING-MACHINE.

The Schedule referred te. in these Letters Patent and making part of the same* To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that we,1). l). SHAW and J. vS. CLARK, of. Elkhart, in the county of Elkhart, and .State of Indiana, have invented au Improved Vashiig-lviachine; and we do hereby declare that the following isa full and exact description thereof, which will enablethose skilled in the art to make and use the sanigrefrence being had to the accompanying drawing, and letters marked thereon, making a part of this'wsl-ecication, in whichff Figure l is a perspective represcntacipnof our iniproved washing-machine, with the corea-released.

Figure 2, a longitudinal section ofthe same.

The present invention relates to an' improvement in that class of clothes-washers in which the clothes are put int-o a cylinder, arranged to rotatei in a washing-box; and

Its nature consists inthe novel construfe-tion1 of, the buckets lof the cylinder, whereby said buckets will, when the cylinder is turned in either direction, carry the water from the box up and over the clothes, and discharge it thereon. Partitions being placed between -Vthe buckets, prevent water from being thrown iioni one bucket into the other, as the whole is hereinafter fully shown.

A represents au ordinary washing-box, in which a rotating cylinder C C, in lwhich the clothes are put, is made to the usual manner. i l

The peculiar' construction of this cylinder consists ofthe buckets E, which carry water from the box A up to the top lof the'cylinder, and discharge it upon the clothes inside, and which are placed facing-to each other, as shown in both figures, and also placcda little distance from partition-plates, or break-waters F, in

order, that as water is carried up from box A, it will not be thrown into the opposite bucket, b ntbe thrown ou to theclothes in the cylinder C C.

Between these buckets E are ribs, G G', fastened to the cylinder C, to support the clothes in the usual manner, the ribs G', and the vbuckets between them, being so divided' off as to forni a door-,for giving,r access to the inside of the cylinder.

By this construction and arran gement, the cylinder can be turned in either direction, and yet produce the same result, as the break-waters F will turn the water downward.

Having thus described our invention,

\Vl1at weA claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

.lhe buckets E, placed facing to cach other, in conibinaton with the break-waters F placed between them, the cylinder C, and washing-box A, as set fort-h.

l). l. S'HAH'. J. S. CLARK.

Yvvit-nesses E. E. GIBsoN, A. B. Rmonn. 

